Oh wow, yeah. There's definitely a lot of that feeling that I've seen in fandom--and so very bizarre. I mean, I predicted OBHWF and yet I don't at all feel like that was a victory for me. That is, I don't think it gives me any credit except what it is--I saw that coming. Maybe somebody might be more likely to listen to me on something else if they thought hey, if I saw that maybe I saw something else they didn't see. But that's not really what's happening in shipping wars, because in shipping wars there are often arguments on *both sides* that are equally silly. I've heard plenty of whacked-out things said about H/G that I still think don't hold up despite the ship itself becoming canon. So the idea that there's any kind of status to be meted out based on guessing a ship is just crazy to me.
Fame is not something that gets dispensed deliberately for consistent reasons. It just happens.
Yes, totally. Maybe if you really studied the contributions of a BNF you would be able to track what thing they produced at what time that got them attention, but the fact remains that nobody can control it. You can't really design a BNF. Even from what little I have seen about the msscribe stuff--did she really give herself fame on her own? Or is the idea that she just got to be friends with certain people who may have been BNFs but were just regular people? What she did, I guess, to gain her own fame was to engineer dramas with herself at the center, and to be honest that is a way to get fame. It's a terrible way, but it is a kind of fame.
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Date: 2006-06-23 10:36 pm (UTC)Fame is not something that gets dispensed deliberately for consistent reasons. It just happens.
Yes, totally. Maybe if you really studied the contributions of a BNF you would be able to track what thing they produced at what time that got them attention, but the fact remains that nobody can control it. You can't really design a BNF. Even from what little I have seen about the msscribe stuff--did she really give herself fame on her own? Or is the idea that she just got to be friends with certain people who may have been BNFs but were just regular people? What she did, I guess, to gain her own fame was to engineer dramas with herself at the center, and to be honest that is a way to get fame. It's a terrible way, but it is a kind of fame.